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Santiago, Jul 1 (EFE).- Chile’s 2021 ski season got under way Thursday with at least 12 of the country’s 19 resorts planning to operate, albeit with Covid-19 protocols and admission limits in place.
The sector normally generates some $200 million a year, representing 10 percent of Chilean tourism revenues.
Returning to normal will be “very difficult,” the head of the Aceski industry association, Francisco Sotomayor, acknowledged, but it may be possible to “reverse the decline” of 2020, when activity plummeted 91 percent.
“We expect between 600,000 and 700,000 visits, instead of the million we had in 2019. People are anxious to get out of the house after the quarantines,” he told Efe.